Speech Board

Every year we do Speech board. For speech board we do a presentation, recite a poem and part of a book.

This year I did my presentation on the Hummingbird. My book was Magic Kitten (Picture Perfect) by Sue Bentley and my poem was ‘That Was The Easter Holidays’. The person that was assessing the Room 4s was a nice lady called Annette. The person assessing the rest of the school was Miss Spittle, (our principal).

When we got our results I found out I got Highly Commended.

The things that you can get while doing speech board are fail, pass, commended, Highly commenced and Distinction. I don’t think anyone got Fail or Pass. I hope not anyway.

We do Speech board because it helps us learn about the thing we're doing it about. For example I learned that there is more than 325 species of hummingbird just by searching up cool facts about the hummingbird. Also it taught us how to speak in front of a big crowd.

For speech board we had to practise for like 6-7 weeks. We had to practise in front of the class lots and lots of times. In the room with the assessor two other people my age were in there as well. When I was doing my poem I partly forgot my poem but I was fine. My thoughts were it was scary doing it in front of someone I didn’t know and I was nervous.

I think speech board went well but was hard work. I’m not looking forward to next year’s Speech board because I had to work hard and I find that difficult.